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Life Is But A Dream

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 28/09/2018 by pixel5130/01/2019

KILLJOYS – Season 4 Episode 10 – SPOILERS

Hannah John-Kamen

Dutch finds one of Khlyen’s red boxes in the green. Initially it is empty, but later it contains what appears to be an apple

Aneela, John, and D’Avin re-enter the green to free Dutch. It is understandable why Aneela needs D’Avin on the mission, because he has a unique ability to repel the green goo. And she does try (unsuccessfully) to persuade John to stay behind. (John is quite vulnerable to manipulation from The Lady and therefore completely useless in greenspace.) Remember back in Episode 3.2 when Zeph was the only one to figure out that “fake fire doesn’t burn”? One can’t help thinking that Zeph is the only one who could entirely refuse to accept The Lady’s artificial reality. John almost succumbed to a facsimile of Pawter. Zeph would never believe an artificial-Pip. Continue reading →

Posted in Killjoys, science fiction, TV | Tagged A Shoe Addict's Christmas, Aaron Ashmore, Cardinal, Dayle McLeod, Hammer, Hannah John-Kamen, Kelly McCormack, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Luke McFarlane, Mark O'Brien, Nose to Tail, Oluniké Adeliyi, Patrick Garrow, The Parting Glass | 3 Replies

Lucy and the Weapons Dealer

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 23/08/2018 by pixel5130/01/2019

KILLJOYS- Season 4 Episode 5 – SPOILERS

Jaeden Noel

Delle Seyah’s as yet unnamed offspring

Delle Seyah’s child (Jaeden Noel) undergoes accelerated aging (zero to sixteen years in one day). To prevent this process from turning him into an octogenarian within a week, One of Pip’s old business acquaintances, Kravn, is consulted (kidnapped). When Pip knew him, Kravn was a human specializing in illegal bio-weapons, but since then, Kravn has uploaded his consciousness into his computer system (making him impervious to the effects of his own inventions). John manages by trickery to download the weapons maker into portable storage and brings him on board Lucy. (Kravn is voiced by KILLJOYS writer Julian Doucet.)

Evam Stern

Evan Stern as Genner, Kravn’s assistant. Stern is also Roald on the Comedy Network series LETTERKENNY, the first two seasons of which can be streamed on HULU.

For the first time, Lucy (Tansen McDonough) gets to interact with another cybernetic being who is on her level. (John describes Kravn’s uploaded human mind as being “way beyond an A.I..”) When Kravn is reluctant to help with the rapid aging problem, Lucy tells Kravn that he is stored in her Random Access Memory. “One cache purge,” she says, “and I overwrite you with cookie recipes.” If that is so, Lucy is likely larger and more complex than Kravn. She might also have originated as an uploaded human consciousness.

To support his extraordinary rate of growth, the child (someone please give him a name) must have consumed at least 50 kilograms of some sort of food. Pippin comes into the galley looking for something for the kid and finds nothing appropriate to eat or drink. “Do you seriously have no drinks that are non-alcoholic,” he asks, “or have y’all just been drunk the entire time I’ve known you?” Continue reading →

Posted in Killjoys, science fiction, TV | Tagged Atticus Mitchell, Charlie Says, Dayle McLeod, Evan Stern, Ishan Morris, Jaeden Noel, Julian Doucet, Kelly McCormack, Luke McFarlane, Noah Danby, That's My DJ, The Intersection, Ucal Shillingford, Wings Over Everest | Leave a reply

Dutch and the Organic Virgins

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 16/07/2015 by pixel5106/12/2018

KILLJOYS – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS

Laara Sadig as Mother Sal (left)  with Constance (Chloe Rose) shortly before Constance stabs her in the neck.  Mother Sal wanted to surrender the pregnant surrogate  to protect the lives of herself and the other women at the convent.

Laara Sadiq as Mother Sal (left)
with Constance (Chloe Rose) in the most intense scene of the episode.

JENNY: “My family gets paid three times for my honour what I would make as an engineer.”
JOHN: “Maybe you’re underestimating how good an engineer you could have been.”
JENNY: “I’ve thought about it. Look, these girls are my real family now. I’d do anything for them. Please don’t tell them that I sometimes have doubts.”
JOHN: “Not even if they bribe me with bacon.”

Jenny (Dayle McLeod) pulls the pin on a plasma grenade, sacrificing her life for the safety of Constance and the baby.

Jenny (Dayle McLeod) pulls the pin on a plasma grenade, sacrificing her life for the safety of Constance and the baby.

The women of Qresh find childbirth gauche, so they contract it out. Qreshi embryos are implanted in surrogates (vessels) who are, for the most part, the female offspring of Leithian farmers. The surrogates are kept in convents, and shielded from any environmental pollutants that might compromise their health or the health of their babies. They are organically raised virgins. One of them, Constance (Chloe Rose) is carrying the only remaining heir to one of the nine families that control The Company.

Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen) pokes her hand through the holographic projection around the nuns' hideoout.

Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen) pokes her hand through the holographic projection around the nuns’ hideoout.

Constance believes in what she is doing, and her goal is to help raise a Qreshi ruler who understands the problems of Leithians. The episode’s best scene has to be when Mother Sal (Laara Sadiq) is revealed as something of an non-believer as she decides to turn Constance over to the attackers. It is Constance, not Dutch, who stops this by stabbing Mother Sal in the neck, and, as the head nun bleeds out, explains to Dutch her commitment to what she does. “Being a vessel is my calling and it matters to me,” she says. “Mother Sal doesn’t get a say in that and neither do you. I want to finish this, for the baby and for me.”

The five surrogates:  Clara, Jenny, Gwen, Constance, and one who is unnamed.  D'Avin quickly learned all their names but never mentioned the fifth one (far right).

The five surrogates: Clara, Jenny, Gwen, Constance, and one who is unnamed. D’Avin quickly learned all their names but never mentioned the fifth one (far right).

The Killjoys find five surrogates at the nuns’ hideout: Jenny, Clara, Gwen, and Constance (and the fifth vessel whose name is never mentioned). Gwen gets shot as they are fighting their way out of the compound. Jenny disguises herself as the pregnant Constance, walks over to their attackers and calmly blows herself up with a plasma grenade. There is a parallel between Jenny’s martyrdom and what happened to that Enzo fellow at the begining of the episode. He got himself blown up by security wire because he couldn’t face another jail term. Jenny, one suspects, may have had similar thoughts about facing a (figuratively) barefoot and (literally) pregnant existence in the service of the nine families of Qresh.

OBSERVATION: In that opening scene, shooting Enzo in the leg to prevent him from running would seem to have been a reasonable option. Either that or they could have physically restrained the fellow rather than hold him at gunpoint.

left on KILLJOYS - Jamillah Ross as Delle Seyah Kendry's guard.  The name of the actor with the gun is unknown.  Right - Ross as Gladys.  The hooded figure is her prisoner Sabine Purcell, played by Natalie Brown.

On KILLJOYS (left) Jamillah Ross as Delle Seyah Kendry’s guard. The name of the actor with the gun is unknown.
On LOST GIRL episode 15 (right) – Ross as Gladys. The hooded figure is her prisoner Sabine Purcell, played by Natalie Brown.

Dutch and D’Avin seem to naturally confide in one another. Dutch tells D’Avin that she grew up in something akin to a royal harem. Earlier, Delle observed that the musical instrument hanging on Lucy’s wall is of a type usually reserved for Royals in other parts of ‘The J’. There is a strong implication that Dutch is or was closely associated with a royal family in some nearby star system.

They have holograms in The Quad, but apparently don’t use them much. When the nuns hid Constance in The Badlands of Westerley, they concealed their location with holographic landscaping. This is the only hologram we have yet seen and that may indicate that only fixed, inanimate objects can be projected. Dutch takes no precautions at all before poking her hand into the fake embankment, and then Johnny walks right through and sticks his head back out from the other side. Admittedly, no animals were in evidence in that part of the Badlands, and no one would have reason to guard what they believed to be a securely hidden entrance, but still, there could have been something nasty on the other side.

Mayko Nguyen as Delle Seyah Kendry

Mayko Nguyen as Delle Seyah Kendry

Liethian Nationalists were mentioned in passing, but no further details were offered about them. We now know John is a foodie, because he likes bacon and has elaborate philosophical reasons for disliking pie. We also learned that Badlands are what is left after The Company gets done stripping resources from a region. The Company, it seems, is not at all concerned with the condition of Westerley’s ecosystems, and one might speculate that when Westerley becomes sufficiently uninhabitable, they might just terraform the place. (It is probable that terraforming was necessary to make the moon habitable to begin with.)

Clara, Constance, and D'Avin escort the newest Qreshi citizen home

Clara , Constance , and D’Avin escort the newest Qreshi citizen home

Dutch has many skills. She has (as yet untapped) musical talents if the multi-coloured lyre-like instrument on her wall is any indication. Dutch surprises Delle Seyah Kendry (Mayko Nguyen) by quoting an author with whom Delle is apparently familiar: “When your enemy has two faces, strike a deal with both.” Add that to her implied royal connections, and Dutch may be developing into a sort of warrior princess. Mayko Nguyen‘s character will appear in at least two more episodes of the first season of KILLJOYS.

This is the first episode of KILLJOYS written by Emily Andras.


NOTES

Allie MacDonald and Rachel Skarsten in LOST GIRL episode #43

Allie MacDonald and Rachel Skarsten in LOST GIRL episode #43

Allie MacDonald (Clara) was Hannah the squonk in the LOST GIRL episode Fae-ge Against the Machine, which was directed by Andy Mikita, who also directed this episode of KILLJOYS. (A squonk is a fae whose tears have the ability to make other people happy.) MacDonald is Belinda McKay in the CITY-TV series YOUNG DRUNK PUNK, about growing up punk in Calgary in the 1980’s. Season 2 of that series will begin airing in January.

Alisha Phillips made her TV debut in this episode as the unnamed fifth surrogate. She is also a singer, and below (right) is one of her songs.

Dayle McLeod (Jenny) will be Hannah in season 2 of THAT’S MY DJ. Hannah is described as the most buzzed about DJ in the city, in a long-term committed relationship with her boyfriend until she meets Meagan (Emily Piggford) who makes her question her sexuality. There’s still a bit of time left to support the series on indegogo.

Posted in Killjoys, science fiction, TV | Tagged Alisha Phillips, Allie MacDonald, Andy Mikita, Chloe Rose, Dayle McLeod, Jamillah Ross, Killjoys, Laara Sadiq, Mayko Nguyen

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